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Charity Bingo to support LGBTQIA Scholarship

April 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Community Connections, Diversity, Libraries, Students, UMKC Foundation

[The following was provided by LGBTQIA office.] UMKC Foundation and the LGBTQIA Office invite you to the Charity Bingo, an event to raise money and awareness for the UMKC LGBTQIA Scholarship.

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Professor provides $300k planned gift to Architecture, Urban Planning + Design

March 27th, 2012 · Comments Off · Academic units, Faculty, UMKC Foundation

[The following was provided by the UMKC Public Relations Office] AUP+D has received a $300,000 planned gift from Theodore Seligson, FAIA, a visiting professor in the department. The gift will supplement The Seligson Fund that was established in 2010 in Seligson’s honor by his friends and colleagues. The purpose of the fund is to enhance the [...]

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UMKC celebrates groundbreaking for Henry W. Bloch Executive Hall for Entrepreneurship and Innovation*

March 13th, 2012 · Comments Off · Academic programs, Academic units, Administration, Budget and Finances, Capital improvements, Community Connections, UMKC Foundation, University Advancement

On March 8, 2012, UMKC hosted the groundbreaking for the new Bloch School expansion, the Henry W. Bloch Executive Hall for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The building was made possible by a $32 million gift from Henry W. Bloch. See UMKC Office of Public Relations feature story for more information. [*All content and images subject to [...]

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UMKC receives $1.5 mil for Vivian and Hymie Sosland Endowed Chair in Urban Teacher Education

December 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Academic programs, Academic units, Announcement, Community Connections, Diversity, Faculty, Mission and Goals, UMKC Foundation

[The following was provided by UMKC Office of Public Relations.] The Sosland Foundation and the Vivian & Hymie J. Sosland Charitable Trust have pledged $1.5 million to UMKC’s School of Education for the establishment of the Vivian and Hymie Sosland Endowed Chair in Urban Teacher Education.

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UMKC announces public phase of $250m capital campaign with $100m+ already raised

November 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Academic programs, Academic units, Administration, Alumni, Announcement, Budget and Finances, Capital improvements, Communications, Community Connections, Divisions, Departments and Centers, Faculty, Mission and Goals, Research, Scholarships, UMKC Foundation

[The following was provided by UMKC’s Office of Public Relations.] On Nov. 9, UMKC and the UMKC Foundation announced the official launch of capital campaign. The seven–year, $250 million campaign – called, The Campaign for UMKC – has already received $100,030,984 in gifts. The campaign will help UMKC empower students to achieve by providing additional [...]

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UMKC School of Law’s Tom and Vina Hyde Collaborative Instruction and Technology Library opens

November 8th, 2011 · Comments Off · Academic units, Alumni, Announcement, Budget and Finances, Capital improvements, Community Connections, Libraries, UMKC Foundation

[The following was provided by UMKC’s Office of Public Relations.] On Nov. 9, UMKC’s School of Law will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the $1.33 million Tom and Vina Hyde Collaborative Instruction and Technology Library. Tom and Vina Hyde contributed $300,000 for the new library, which is part of the Leon E. Bloch Law Library. [...]

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Charity Bingo to support LGBTQIA Scholarship

October 4th, 2011 · Comments Off · Administration, Affiliated groups, Community Connections, Diversity, Students, Support services, UMKC Foundation

UMKC Foundation and the LGBTQIA Office invite you to the Charity Bingo, an event to raise money and awareness for the UMKC LGBTQIA Scholarship. Bring a friend and head down to Hamburger Mary’s KC in the Crossroads on Oct 5 at 8 p.m. and enjoy entertainment by drag performer and Bingo hostess extraordinaire, Miss Daisy [...]

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UMKC receives $32 million gift from Henry W. Bloch

September 20th, 2011 · Comments Off · Academic programs, Academic units, Administration, Announcement, Budget and Finances, Capital improvements, Community Connections, Divisions, Departments and Centers, UMKC Foundation

[The following was provided by UMKC Office of Public Relations.] On Sept. 15, UMKC and the UMKC Foundation announced a $32 million gift from Henry W. Bloch. It is the largest gift in UMKC’s history and among the top 24 largest in 2011, according to the The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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UMKC Foundation reports university’s third-best fundraising year

August 30th, 2011 · Comments Off · Academic units, Administration, Announcement, Budget and Finances, Community Connections, UMKC Foundation

[The following was provided by UMKC’s Office of Public Relations.] UMKC Foundation reports that a record number of 19,281 donors contributed $30.13 million in the 2010-2011 fiscal year – the third best fundraising year in UMKC’s history. The Foundation also reported a record number of 42,004 gifts, with nine gifts worth $1 million or more. [...]

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Kauffman Foundation donates $3.2m for new KC STEM Alliance

July 19th, 2011 · Comments Off · Academic units, Budget and Finances, Classroom Technology, Community Connections, Divisions, Departments and Centers, Life Sciences, Mission and Goals, Students, Technology, UMKC Foundation

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has announced that it will provide $3.2 million during the next five years to help establish the KC STEM Alliance to be based at UMKC’s School of Computing and Engineering. The Alliance will promote science, technology, engineering and math and will merge two area organizations that currently prepare students for [...]

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